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A comment on The Collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor. Parent comment

Re:The Collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor by Zach_the_Lizard on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:00AM (#10425436)
Both the NSA and various EU intelligence agencies were violating their various laws. Or, if you're a lawyer for one of these agencies, they had found convenient loopholes that violated the spirit of the laws and rendered them meaningless.

So if we apply the standard of intelligence agencies violating the laws mean a country is unfit for storing EU data, then many EU nations are now unfit to store this data.

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Re:The Collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor by toyg on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:56AM (#10425841)
> So if we apply the standard of intelligence agencies violating the laws mean a country is unfit for storing EU data, then many EU nations are now unfit to store this data

The difference is that EU citizens can hold "unfit" actors responsible, if they are from their own country (or even continent, via the ECJ); but they cannot do anything against the NSA.

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